BLACK PICKET FENCE. (Prodigy. Rebel. Black. Unapologetic. An Autobiography.) - Paperback
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I lived on the street, then I lived in a villa. I slept with people for money until I got my first Broadway show. I tried to kill my father twice - both times before I was ten years old. I was arrested five times before I turned sixteen while, at the same time, I had been labeled a child-prodigy. I beat a man with a baseball bat because he punched his girlfriend in the face. I was homeless and washed myself in fast food restaurant restrooms to be clean for dance classes and auditions .
And if I had to do it all over again, I wouldn't change a thing.
These 500 pages cover ONLY the first twenty years of the artist's turbulent life. A life of tragedy, drama, art and music.
This is a literary work that raises the bar for the modern autobiography.
Percival Duke, a singer, composer, librettist and author, was born in Dallas, Texas. He was labeled a prodigy at the age of six.
Coming from a family with a physically and emotionally abusive background, he found himself building his own worlds in which he could escape.
After graduating high school at fifteen, Percival went to New York City where he honed in on his vocal and dance talents until he landed a role in his first Broadway show less than one year after his arrival.
Many hard life-lessons and a few perfomances later, he was off to Europe with a Broadway musiccal touring company.
Thirty years, five studio albums, more than twenty Single, and several top TV shows later - including The Voice (Germany), Percival resides in Cologne and enjoys celebrity success the country as well as in Austria and Switzerland.
BLACK PICKET FENCE is his first novel. There others on their way.
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